Google stops passing anchor text through certain 301 redirects

Redirecting to a homepage is effectively wasting a valuable link anyway – there’s far more benefit to redirecting to something relevant.

Interesting. Thanks for bringing this up.

It does make sense from Google’s point of view to do this. I think it’s a really smart move on their part.

This is pretty interesting. Do you think the same thing happens with cname redirects not passing anchor text description?

I’d guess that your theory, “Most likely there is some kind of filter similar to the Googlebomb algorithm which stops the 301 passing anchor text if the target page doesn’t contain the actual text of the original link or is substantially different to the deleted page.”, is likely the correct one.

Very intresting post ! Thanx. I think passing pagerank with 301 redirect will soon be history to.

I wonder if anyone has any current thought on how many sites if there is a limit you can set 301 to point to a new site…we are launching a new main site to consolidate about 7 sites and plan to 301 all those 7 sites to one main new site ..page by page 301 for relevent content matching. Does Google accept more than 3 sites at a time doing a 301 to one main site..? should it be done over time? like 3 months?

Awesome finding Patrick – do you have any insights in regards to domain-wide 301 redirects?

Great findings Patrick

I was just googling on how 301 pass anchor text value, so this is great stuff.

Is this still the same currently? or have changed?

This is interesting. I guess we need to wait and see how this plays out.
Any updates?

Patrick did you notice that the member Google Sniper and Google Terminator is the same person and a comment spammer?

Thanks for the post. I am pretty new to SEO and the idea of linking to inner pages is challenging to me. You still have to do it as an overall insurance policy to make sure your site(s) have relevancy, right?

I recently redirected from ebookireland.com/galwayrest.htm to ebookireland.com/galway-restaurants.htm

Now my new page is coming in result but not showing any back links or “ebookireland.com/galway-restaurants.htm” instances for old page
Just want to ask does google also transfer links or not
2. As new page is already there shall i delete my old page and remove redirect from .htaccess
Help

I don’t want to seem like a complete dork… but here goes anyway. Does this mean that if someone lands on your blog for a certain keyword they will only see that particular page?

Great I like it so much.

I am really fed up from there polices. I implement what they like because they are the search engine leader.

Thanks for informing .. a lot of effort is wasted!

Google is really making online living difficult. They take full benefit of the monopoly they have and sometime do it in a negative way.

As always Google is smarter than we think. I fully agree with Googles policy on this.

Excellent article you have written Patrick. It’s well researched and very informative. I agree with the others who have said that Google knows best in this case. I agree with the policy as well.

Hello,

Really great post you have written here.
I didn’t know about that.
Ehh, now Google is smarter…

I guess the simple answer is to redirect to the nearest relevant page when you take another page down. i can hardly blame google for using logic like this at all though…… makes a change.

Thanks for bringing this up.

Many regards from sweden